Elisa Gomez-Monzo is a Spanish-American Senior User Experience Designer at Alley specializing in visual solutions tied to functional design. She has worked across a wide range of disciplines for national and international clients, where she’s developed projects from discovery to website launches. Outside of work, Elisa enjoys watching good movies at the theater and discussing…

Nicole Furlan is a Senior Software Developer at Alley. Prior to Alley, Nicole worked at Mercy For Animals where she managed the organization’s technical infrastructure and built and led a team of developers who managed all of MFA’s public-facing websites. She is passionate about protecting and advocating for animals and other individuals who are commonly…

Meaghan Tongen is Director of Product Management at Alley and specializes in product strategy and systems thinking. Prior to Alley, she spent 8 years at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, leading digital strategy, CRM practice, product development, and large-scale technology projects. Outside of work, she enjoys planning trips near and far, visiting museums, being outside,…

Travis Weston is a Senior Software Developer at Alley who specializes in Backend Development and PHP. Prior to Alley, Travis worked at Bangor Daily News where he managed the IT department and led the development team. During his tenure, he untangled the paper’s IT systems and transitioned them to the cloud so the newsroom could…

Dustin Paluch is a Senior Software Developer at Alley who specializes in back-end development as well as client-side application development. Prior to Alley, Dustin worked at Chatman Design where he built custom WordPress themes and plugins for a variety of clients. Within that role, he built a custom theater ticketing system complete with tools for…

Julio Braña is a Senior Software Developer at Alley who specializes in WordPress development. Before Alley, Julio worked as a WordPress developer at Hachette UK, where he built new sites for publishing divisions littlebrown, Hachette Ireland and Quercus. He also developed new functionalities such as display events imported from a REST API, FormStack and Adobe…

Eric Fuller is a Senior Software Developer who specializes in WordPress development. Before Alley, he worked at WebDevStudios where he built complex, custom websites as a Frontend Developer and eventually a Backend Developer. Before becoming a self-taught web developer, he worked in the IT consulting industry. Eric is passionate about testing and software architecture. He…

Jonathan Byerley is the Senior Operations Manager at Alley, specializing in finance and product operations. Prior to Alley, he worked on a team that developed and supported CollectiveAccess, an open-source collections software platform for the capture and preservation of museum, archival, and research data. He also previously worked at the National September 11 Memorial &…

Jacob Schweitzer is a Senior Software Developer at Alley who specializes in backend development and JavaScript. Prior to Alley, Jacob worked at XWP where he was a WordPress engineer. In that role, he architected solutions for clients with enterprise scale WordPress websites. He has also contributed to open source projects including WordPress core, the official…

Renato Alves is a Principal Software Developer at Alley who specializes in back end development. Prior to Alley, Renato worked at XWP, where he worked on the relaunch of RollingStone.com and other projects. His specialities include the WordPress CMS, React and GraphQL. Renato is a big supporter of Open Source, contributing to projects such as…

Christina Deemer is Principal Software Lead at Lede, where she champions accessibility and headless WordPress in her work with enterprise-level publishers and nonprofits. Passionate about inclusivity and community, Christina co-founded the Interactive Mechanics Fellowship for Diversity and Inclusion. She has previously spoken at WordCampUS, WordCamp NYC, the Museum Computer Network Conference, LibertyJS, and the Philly…